What is the difference between murder and manslaughter? Which poison acts like what? How can you tell if a death was a murder and not a suicide? What exactly is the responsibility of a prosecutor? And what does a water corpse really look like? Following the bestseller "The Word on Murder," comes "From Arsenic to Targeted Pursuit," the second guide for anyone interested in the craft of crime writing. Christine Lehmann, the creator of Lisa Nerz, has teamed up with police expert Manfred Büttner to bring expertise to German crime culture. With such tools, any author can create scenarios that are true to life. In crime novels, about half of all perpetrators are women, while in real life, the percentage of female murderers is below ten percent. The overwhelming majority of these murders are committed using poison.